Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.
The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults.
As the brain ages, a number of structural and functional changes occur, including atrophy, or decay, reductions in cell activity and increases in complex things like deposits of amyloid plaques and tau tangles, which can impact cognitive function.
Research has shown that mental stimulation similar to the stimulation that occurs in individuals who frequently use the Internet may affect the efficiency of cognitive processing and alter the way the brain encodes new information.
Found by Brother Uncle Don.
This may explain a lot about some of our regular commenters.
You’ve got that right!
I guess not all of the changes are for the better.
hmm, wonder what the three cells in my brain look like after having been online since the 80’s..and later ran Mustang then Cott Lang’s awesome Renegade BBS software to boot..
(long live Nirvana-Net!)
Compuserve, Delphi and Q-Link were some notables mainstream services of the time..
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You realise all this web related brain changing is merely preparing us for our inevitable evolutionary destiny as brains-in-jars.
…adults with little tropical experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week in Hawaii, a new tourist bureau finds…
The research on what Dvorak Uncensored does to your brain is not completed yet.
And when they found where the porn is their chances to develop prostate cancer diminishes also.
# 3 honeyman said, “…inevitable evolutionary destiny as brains-in-jars.”
Which is why true geeks are getting used to life without getting laid.